Yueyi Sun

Title: Yueyi Sun and Patent Innovation in Order Fulfillment

Introduction

Yueyi Sun is an inventor based in San Francisco, California. His patent work addresses how online concierge systems can help users choose delivery times while accounting for retailer closing hours and order fulfillment predictions.

Latest Patents

Sun is associated with 1 patent: “User Interface Enabling Order Fulfillment Options Based on Predicted Fulfillment Times from a Trained Model.” The invention concerns an online concierge system that receives a user’s order for items from a retailer and coordinates a picker who selects and obtains those items for delivery.

The system evaluates available delivery intervals using a predicted fulfillment time and the picker’s travel time from the retailer to the delivery location. By accounting for travel time separately, it can assess whether the picker is likely to obtain the items before the retailer closes, without letting the subsequent delivery journey affect that determination. The interface can then prevent users from selecting intervals that may not be feasible.

Career Highlights

Sun is associated with Maplebear Inc., the company behind the online grocery and delivery platform Instacart. His patent reflects work on applying trained-model predictions and operational constraints to delivery scheduling.

Collaborations

Zi Wang and Houtao Deng are identified as Sun’s coworkers. The available information does not specify their roles in the patent or whether they collaborated on it.

Conclusion

Yueyi Sun’s patent focuses on making delivery-time selection more practical by connecting predicted order fulfillment with retailer hours and picker travel. It illustrates how software-based scheduling can support more reliable order fulfillment.